| HANUKKAH | Jewish holiday observed for eight nights and days also called the Festival of Lights |
| NILE | Who coordinated the Festival of Light, Fred ... (4) |
| SNOWDROP | Flower of spring - in south, these days, also fall |
| OIL | Liquid that miraculously burned for eight nights |
| MARDIGRAS | Rio's famous carnival ends on this day also called Shrove Tuesday (5,4) |
| GOODWOOD | Duke of Richmond and Gordon's estate in West Sussex where the Festival of Speed is hosted annually (8) |
| LASTPOST | Military bugle call that signals the end of the day, also sounded at military funerals (4,4) |
| BARABBAS | '[W]ell-known prisoner' released at the festival of Passover instead of Jesus (Matthew 27:15-23) (8) |
| CALENDAR | A table showing the division of a year into months and days (8) |
| ACROBATS | Killer whale upsets fly-by-nights and those working at top level without nets (8) |
| NICHOLAS | Saint traditionally associated with the festival of Christmas (8) |
| PETERKAY | Comedian known for Phoenix Nights and Car Share (5,3) |
| TERRENCE | Badlands and Days Of Heaven director, _ Malick (8) |
| EPIPHANY | Feast day also known as Three Kings' Day (8) |
| MENORAHS | They're lit eight nights in a row during Hanukkah |
| DOWSON | Member of the Rhymers' Club, also associated with the Decadent Movement, whose poems are the source of the phrases "gone with the wind" and "days of wine and roses" (6) |
| CASSON | Director of architecture at the Festival of Britain who was elected president of the Royal Academy in 1976 and illustrated the Prince of Wales' The Old Man of Lochnagar (6) |
| URANUS | The poles of this planet have 42-year "nights" and "days" |
| OMAR | "'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days" poet |
| HESIOD | Writer of the 8th century B.C. known as the father of Greek didactic poetry, noted for works including the Theogony and Works and Days (6) |
